The MP for Islington South and Finsbury told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there were "some similarities" with the anti-establishment anger that both candidates tapped into, even though their solutions are different.

Thornberry said that Corbyn "didn't welcome" Trump's election, but instead that he "recognises what's happening [across the world], which is that there are too many people, and too many regions, who feel as though politics at the moment just doesn't represent their interests."

"The system needs to be to make sure that our politics actually works for everyone and we need to make sure that we're not just acting on behalf of a few," she added.

Asked if she believed Trump was tapping into the same seam of anger that took Jeremy Corbyn to power, Thornberry replied: "Yes and no. I think that it's right to say that there are too many people who feel that the political system doesn't work on behalf of everyone.

"I think it's right that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have now been energised in Britain by Jeremy Corbyn being the leader of the Labour party, so I think there are some similarities," she said.

But she added: "It's clear that the values and principles that Jeremy Corbyn espouses are very different to those espoused by Trump."

Thornberry believes, however, that anti-establishment anger will soon start translating into votes for Labour, even though it is distinctly pro-immigration, unlike Donald Trump — who proposed building a wall between Mexico and the USA and called Mexicans "rapists."

She said that the party had popular policies that offered an "alternative."

"We are an alternative, we will be a good alternative and we have to find a way to express that clearly. Politics in Britain is going very fast indeed. I don't bet, but I think the wheel will turn," she said.